Historical Economic Demography Workshop 2025
Hosted by the Department of Economic History, LSE
Organised by Eric Schneider and Neil Cummins (LSE)
31st January 2025, Yangtze Theatre, 2nd Floor, Centre Building, LSE
If you are planning to attend this workshop, please complete the registration form as soon as possible, but no later than 22nd January.
9.30-10.00am: Welcome
10.00am-noon Session 1: Fertility
Ian Timaeus (LSHTM): Fertility and family building in Kenya, 1947-2007
Louis Henderson (LSE): Was there a family economics before 1870?: fertility choice in a long-running natural experiment, London, c. 1760-1870
Emma Diduch (CAMPOP): People, places, and peers - the fertility trajectories of two Derbyshire cohorts 1881-1911
12.00-12.10pm: Coffee Break
12.10-1.30pm Session 2: Mortality and Mobility
Casey Breen (Oxford): The Black-White Mortality Crossover Paradox: New Evidence from Social Security Mortality Records
Per Engzell (UCL): 150 years of multigenerational mobility in Sweden
1.30-2.30pm: Lunch Break
2.30-3.50pm Session 3: Health
Eilidh Garrett (CAMPOP): Changing manifestations of the White Death: the recording of tuberculous deaths in British civil registers, 1871-1901
Romola Davenport (CAMPOP): Public and private water provision in industrializing Britain
3.50-4.20pm: Coffee Break
4.20-5.40pm Session 4: Gender
Felix Schaff (EUI): Before the U-Curve: Inter-Family Roots of Preindustrial Gender Inequality
Sijie Hu (Renmin): Role models rescuing missing girls? Evidence from six centuries of Chinese history
5.40-7.00pm: Drinks at White Horse pub
7.00pm: Dinner (invited guests only)